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Prohibition

August 20, 2026

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In El Paso in December 1927, an anti-Prohibition editorial by Duncan Aikman in the El Paso Times , titled “Settle It Like Men,” denounced Prohibition as a failed and unenforceable law. The next morning, the Rev. George H. Bassett of the First Christian Church publicly attacked Aikman from the…

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